“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Memory is the scribe of the soul

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.

Thought and theory must precede all action, that moves to salutary purposes. Yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand.

Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

Decide how much you want to be earning one year, five years and ten years from today. What will you have to do to achieve these amounts.

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.

We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.